Western Quotes

When in doubt, make a western.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Western man is schizophrenic.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

I've always wanted to do a Western.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Of course, western is my native music.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.